Sentences with phrase «about local constituency»

How about local constituency associations, food banks, soup kitchens, or anglers and hunters clubs?

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As a result, Graham is currently working on a play about Labour, set at the local constituency level.

I represent a constituency with Manchester airport partially in it; I understand all about the local pressures — but you've got to as a nation be able to overcome those and make a sensible decision about where that extra runway capacity in the South East should go.»

At the constituency level I would have thought that a spending cap of c. # 2k would about cover other expenses and is a small enough sum for a genuine local candidate to raise (ie it is # 20 from 100 supporters).

In bringing together such a wide range of information, including candidate names, previous election results, demographics, party funding information, election forecasts, and information about constituency history, the Dashboard is the most comprehensive data source for citizens seeking to find out more about their local area.

It says a lot about the distinct political character of the Northern Isles that the second placed candidate in the Orkney constituency in 2011 was an Independent, local councillor James Stockan.

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

She has frequently backed various local business interests in parliamentary debates, including solar panel businesses concerned about cuts to subsidies for domestic solar panels, [12] and wood panelling businesses [13] which employ many people in her Clwyd South constituency.

The government is standing firm in its approach to gypsy campsites after sustained attacks from local MPs concerned about travellers» sites in their constituency.

Andrew has much better things to do than gossip with New Statesman hacks about nonsense, like working really hard in his constituency and leading a really effective local campaigning machine.

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

The comment came after Vicky Dunn, the Green candidate in the constituency, asked Ayling about a claim made in a local Ukip leaflet that offshore wind energy jobs were all filled by foreigners.

and the local one («thinking specifically about your own constituency and the candidates who are likely to stand there, which party's candidate do you think you will vote for?»).

11:51 - Harman is currently talking about the prominence of first ladies in constituencies - local MPs» wives being especially well - known.

Ian McKenzie, chair of the Lewisham East constituency Labour party, had written to local members during the week urging them to make their feelings about the selection date known to senior officials.

As the Mail reported at the weekend, Mr Lyon has also just passed on his file on the complaint made by Tory MP Greg Hands a year ago about Gordon Brown's failure to declare his subletting of part of a constituency office to his local Labour Party.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Nigel Farage, Ukip's leader, made three trips to the constituency during the four - week campaign, downing pints in local pubs, climbing aboard a tank and making disparaging remarks about Miliband, who visited the seat twice.

The spending limits on local campaigns are much tighter — between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency.

They must be able to engage multiple constituencies — all the way from President Obama through his education secretary down to the local mom thinking about which school would be the best for her kindergartner.

«The report is designed to continue the dialogue at local, state, and regional levels about how to create partnerships across Pre-K-20 systems and diverse constituencies to support young people, with a particular focus on building on the region's assets and on working collaboratively,» explains IEL's Dr. Helen Janc Malone.

We collaborate closely with regional partners to learn about and understand the particulars of the local situation; these partners bring perspectives from numerous sectors and constituencies: from civil society organizations to policymakers to water regulators to communities.

The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.